Firearm.



T. C. JOHNSON.

FIREARM.

APPLICATION m MAY s, 1915.

Patented July 13,1915.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT,

ent ies.

ASSIGNOR T0 wincnnsrnn REPEATING ARMS 00., OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

FIREARM.

Application filed May 3, 1915.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Firearms;

and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Figure l, a broken view in side elevation of a firearm constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2, a broken detached view in side elevation of the front end of the receiver, showing its provision with a depending abutment-lug. Fig. 3, a view thereof in broken transverse section on the line ab and looking forward toward the rear face of its abutment-lug. Fig. 4, a detached view of the receiver in front elevation. Fig. 5, a detached view in rear elevation of the forearm. Fig. 6, a detached view in front elevation of the butt-stock.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of firearms in which the stock is divided into two parts known as the forearm and the butt-stock, the object being to provide improved means for supporting the adjacent ends of the forearm and butt-stock and for fastening the front end of the guard of the firearm.

Specification of Letters Patent.

- guard.

Patented July f3, 1915.

Serial No. 25,490.

abutment-lug 3 depending from, and preferably formed integralwith, the. forward end of the receiver 4, which in other respects may be of any approved construction, according to the character of the gun. The said finger 2 is counter-bored and threaded as at 5 for the reception of a screw 6 passing upward through the extreme front end of the guard 7 which may be of any approved construction. The extreme forward end of the guard 7 abuts directly against the portion 8 of the flat rear face 9 of the lug 3, while the upper face of the forward end of the guard is brought to a bearing by the screw 6 against the lower face of the finger 2 which enters a cut or recess l0 formed for its reception in the flat front faced the butt-stock 11 which is supported, as shown, by the entrance of tenons 12 formed upon its forward end into narrow cuts or sockets 13 in the flat rear face 9 of the abutmentlug 3 and also by the finger 2. As shown, the

front face of the lug 3 is formed with a from any cause isprevented from turning by the tenon 15 acting as a dowel by its entrance into the recess 18. In its. external contour, the lug 3 conforms to the curvature of the adjacent ends of the butt-stock 11 and forearm 16 so as to form a bridge between V the two and a virtual extension of both. The particular manner of adapting the front and rear faces of the lug 3' to receive the adjacent ends of the butt-stock and fore-- I arm may be varied, my present invention re-- lating in particular to the provisionv of the said lug 3 with a rearward projection .Zfor the attachment of the forward end of the I claim: 1. A receiver forsmall arms provided at its forward end with :2. depending abutmentlug adapted to support the adjacent ends of a forearm and butt-stock and provided With arearwardly extending finger for the attach- Inent of the forward end of the guard of the arm.

2. A recei er for small arms provided at its forward end with a depending abutmentlug adapted to support the adjacent ends of a forearm and butt-stock and provided with a rearwardly extending finger for support- 10 ing the forward end of the butt-stock.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THOMAS C. JOHNSON. \Vitnesses:

FREDERIC C. EARLE, FRANK A. PAUL.

Ccplel of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

